Welcome to my homepage. I'm a composer and improvisor, and I lead something of a dual musical
life. Some of my music is highly formalized — algorithmically composed — and some is the product of collaborative
free improvisation. Much of my recent work involves writing software for automatic music improvisation and real-time human-computer interaction in live music performance. My hope is to develop a way of working that combines these approaches to making music without diluting or compromising the features that accord each its own power.

News

August 28, 2013:
I'm happy and very excited to join the New York City College of Technology as an Assistant Professor, teaching in the Emerging Media Technologies program of the Entertainment Technology department!

March 1-3, 2012, Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology, Connecticut College, New London, CT:
For the Ammerman Center 13th Biennial Symposium on Arts and Technology, William Brent and I will perform and present a new work, Cross-talk, for guitarist, pianist, and semi-autonomous computer, in which the human instrumentalists manipulate live audio using infrared motion-capture technology. Check out this paper describing the technology developed for the piece.

May 8, 2008, 8:00 PM, UCSD Calit2 Auditorium: Ross Karre performs
my new solo percussion piece, Osmosis,
incorporating laser-triggered electronics and an enormous 6'-diameter tam-tam.
The tam-tam is featured in all of the compositions on this concert, including Philippe Manoury's
Neptune and Stockhausen's Mikrophonie. Free.

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